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NASA’s PREFIRE Climate Change CubeSat Launched To Decode Earth’s Polar Mysteries
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoNASA’s PREFIRE mission uses CubeSats to track heat emissions from Earth’s poles, enhancing...
TESS finds intriguing world sized between Earth and Venus
Phys.org· 5 days agoCapturing transits—brief, regular dimmings of stars caused by the passage of orbiting worlds—is one...
NASA launches tiny CubeSat to set its sights on Earth
ABC12 Mid-Michigan· 6 days agoThe company confirmed the satellite’s successful deployment at 8:35 p.m. local time (4:35 a.m. ET)....
How TESS’s Newest Discovery Could Change Our Search for Alien Worlds
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoAstronomers using NASA's TESS and other facilities have discovered a planet between the sizes of...
NASA launches tiny CubeSat to set its sights on Earth
AccuWeather· 4 days agoNASA has launched the first of two research satellites to measure how much heat is lost to space...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 15 hours agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...
NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth's Poles
The Auto Channel· 5 days ago"NASA's innovative PREFIRE mission will fill a gap in our understanding of the Earth system – providing our scientists a detailed picture of how Earth's polar regions influence how much energy ...
The Space Review: Why planetary protection matters to the future of space exploration
The Space Review· 3 days agoWith the possible exception of a few early Soviet probes, all others were sterilized before leaving...
Is Pluto a planet? It depends.
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoAstronomy.com: We were going to write something new about Pluto here. In 1930 a young astronomer from Kansas, employed as an observer at Lowell...
NASA, Rocket Lab prepare for back-to-back launches of climate-monitoring PREFIRE spacecraft –...
Spaceflight Now· 7 days agoNASA is preparing to launch a pair of climate research missions within weeks of each other. The two spacecraft share the name PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment) and ...